Evangelical leader applauds Trump for 'relationship with Christ'
Source: MSN/The Hill
An evangelical leader said that Donald Trump did well with evangelical voters in the Republican primary because he recently entered "a relationship with Christ," according to Politico.
The presumptive GOP nominee received mixed reviews following a closed-door meeting with hundreds of Christian faith leaders last week, but James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, applauded Trump for renewing his commitment to evangelicals.
Dobson said in an interview that he knows "the person who led [Trump] to Christ. And that's fairly recent."
"I don't know when it was, but it has not been long," he added.
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The rapid embrace of Donald Trump by the Religious Right should not come as a surprise. While most folks will say that the controversy over abortion is what gave rise to the movement, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation. Thus, despite the fact that most of Trump's position would seem to conflict with what is commonly understood to be Christian doctrine, he is the most overly racist candidate in recent memory.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133_Page3.html#.V28BQLgrKUk
Weyrich saw that he had the beginnings of a conservative political movement, which is why, several years into President Jimmy Carter’s term, he and other leaders of the nascent religious right blamed the Democratic president for the IRS actions against segregated schools—even though the policy was mandated by Nixon, and Bob Jones University had lost its tax exemption a year and a day before Carter was inaugurated as president. Falwell, Weyrich and others were undeterred by the niceties of facts. In their determination to elect a conservative, they would do anything to deny a Democrat, even a fellow evangelical like Carter, another term in the White House.
But Falwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge. It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale.
By the late 1970s, many Americans—not just Roman Catholics—were beginning to feel uneasy about the spike in legal abortions following the 1973 Roe decision. The 1978 Senate races demonstrated to Weyrich and others that abortion might motivate conservatives where it hadn’t in the past. That year in Minnesota, pro-life Republicans captured both Senate seats (one for the unexpired term of Hubert Humphrey) as well as the governor’s mansion. In Iowa, Sen. Dick Clark, the Democratic incumbent, was thought to be a shoo-in: Every poll heading into the election showed him ahead by at least 10 percentage points. On the final weekend of the campaign, however, pro-life activists, primarily Roman Catholics, leafleted church parking lots (as they did in Minnesota), and on Election Day Clark lost to his Republican pro-life challenger.
In the course of my research into Falwell’s archives at Liberty University and Weyrich’s papers at the University of Wyoming, it became very clear that the 1978 election represented a formative step toward galvanizing everyday evangelical voters. Correspondence between Weyrich and evangelical leaders fairly crackles with excitement. In a letter to fellow conservative Daniel B. Hales, Weyrich characterized the triumph of pro-life candidates as “true cause for celebration,” and Robert Billings, a cobelligerent, predicted that opposition to abortion would “pull together many of our ‘fringe’ Christian friends.” Roe v. Wade had been law for more than five years.
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How can people actually believe this shit? 
just not a very good one.. So that dude makes zero sense. He's part of the more Left style wing . That even I don't like. I prefer mine a bit Right of Center. But poltics and religion should be seperated anyway 
i tried, i actually tried to follow along. but in the end the basic violation of my own moral compass as to what was right from wrong was getting me free from the bullshit. Never could quite grasp how jesus would want us to act like assholes....my short comings and lack of faith and study i guess....
"I read the best Bible, I quote the best verses. I consult the best pastors. We're gonna create God's army. Fill it with the best Christians, it's gonna be huge!"
